USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: NigerianID | TOYIN ADEPOJU, KWARA STATE AND SARAKINOPSIS DISEASE

I love your range of reference, Godson and your wide raging aesthetic sense, covering classic Western to African oral literature to contemporary daily life.

This expression from you is an all time quotable quote:

"You can only help empty heads to land a job, you can't help empty heads to sustain a job."

I want to achieve such qualities in my own writing.

thanks
toyin

On 10 July 2011 17:11, toyin adepoju <toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com> wrote:

I love your range of reference, Godson and your wide raging aesthetic sense, covering classic Western to African oral literature to contemporary daily life. I want to achieve that too.

This expresion fromyiou is an alltime quotabke quioteYou can only help empty heads to land a job, you can't help empty heads to sustain a job. .

 

thank you very much.
toyin

On 10 July 2011 09:38, Godson Offoaro <offoaro@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

Africa Today, Africa Today:   Naaah, think you are getting it wrong. Toyin did from the beginning separate Gbemi's beauty from the Saraki phenom in Kwara. Gbemi, forget the fact she is Saraki should be a head turner any day. I had once praised her in an article titled Saraki: Bestride Kwara, you are a colossus." Send her to a beauty contest, she will floor the best from the USA or Brazil. Africa Today, nations in history, it is on record, have gone to wars because of princesses. Men have dueled it out because of the allure of the beau. In his classic poem:  "The Rape of the Locke"  - a mock-heroic narrative poem,  which indicts vanity and idleness, Alexander Pope had chronicled  how,the muses suffered untold hardship just to get a Locke off the bushy hairs of pretty Belinda. Even Igbo folklore had taken time off to eulogize some beaus, with such praise-songs as "elewe ejeghi oru" (you are so captivated by beauty you encounter on your way to work that you forget to go to work). Most male motorists would acknowledge it that time without number, they had run into another car because of that split second take a look on a passer-by beauty. It has happened to me several times. That's why  Americans call them head-turners. Gbemi Saraki is a classic head turner! That why even agberos atop trailers make cat calls on passerby beaus!   Go, go now and take another look at Gbemi's pix and you would appreciate the work her God did on her, though heavily augmented by her make up artistes. Only when you do not possess affection would you deny the obvious latent fact that Gbemi's God spent extra hours, the day she was created! I have read Toyin's write up over and over again. I have even saved it for reference purposes!   Of course, you may be right when you pin down character as being more important than physical appearance or facial beauty which Pope did not even gloss over when he deadpanned using the iambic pentameter format as his style to opine that   "Charm strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."  But if Gbemi were to be as empty as you tried to allude, she would have been out of the Senate in a jiffy.  You can only help empty heads to land a job, you can't help empty heads to sustain a job. Or is it because she is female? Her brother Bukola nko? If he were a woman, he would have been cuter than Gbemi. What of Olusola himself, isnt he cute looking? For the purpose of this discourse, we must try to separate Saraki the gluttonous politician, the baba oloye of Kwara politics from the issue at hand, which is the stunning beauty of one of his progenies -  in this case, Gbemi, oh, fine Gbemi!   If you're Igbo, Nwanna, Gbemi, mara mma. HO HA  - like Abraham Nwa Madu would say!    Nwa Offoaro@Havensgate, Owerri   --- On Sun, 7/10/11, africa today <africatoday80@gmail.com> wrote: From: africa today <africatoday80@gmail.com> Subject: [TalkNigeria] TOYIN ADEPOJU, KWARA STATE AND SARAKINOPSIS DISEASE To: "Nigerian IDENTITY" <NigerianID@yahoogroups.com>, "sobef650" <SOBEF650@aol.com>, "Ibukunolu Babajide" <ibk@usa.net>, "my brother" <talknigeria@yahoogroups.com>, "NIDOA" <nidoa@yahoogroups.com>, "NIDO-USA NIDO-USA" <NIDO-USA@yahoogroups.com>, "OmoOdua Forum" <omoodua@yahoogroups.com>, "Yoruba World" <yorubaworld@yahoogroups.com> Cc: "naijaintellects" <naijaintellects@googlegroups.com>, "wole soyinka society ws" <wolesoyinkasociety@yahoogroups.com>, "Ama Ndiigbo" <igbo_forum@yahoogroups.com>, "igbo events" <igboevents@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sunday, July 10, 2011, 2:55 AM   TOYIN ADPOJU,   PLEASE GO AND CURE YOUR SELF FROM SARAKINOPSIS DISEASE.   WE NOW KNOW THAT YOU ARE FROM KWARA STATE BECAUSE YOU HAVE SARAKINOPSIS DISEASE.   YOU ARE ANOTHER KWARA PERSON HYPTONISED BY  JUJU CONCUSION PREPARED BY PA SARAKI TO KEEP WORSHIPPING AND PRAISING THEM. OTHER PEOPLE LIKE US  ARE NOT UNDER THAT SPELL YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM.   YOU SEE I HAVE NOW ARRIVED TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THAT JUJU AND HYPNOSIS THAT THE SARAKI FAMILY HAVE USED ON ALL YOU PEOPLE FROM KWARA, YOU THINK IT WILL AFFECT US NOT FROM KWARA - HELL NOOOO.   WHAT KIND OF JUJU AND KWUNU CONCUSION THAT DR. SARAKI GAVE TO ALL THE WELL EDUCATED PROFESSORS AND DOCTORS  FROM KWARA,  AND BELIEVE ME KWARA STATE MAY HAVE THE HIGEST DOCTORS AND PROFESSORS IN NIGERIA BECAUSE THEY DO HAVE THEM PLENTY - THE YORUBA SIDE OF KWARA ANY WAY.    ALL OF THEM WILL BE SHAKING WHEN SARAKI FAMILY NAME IS MENTIONED ANY WHERE. THIS IS A SERIOUS DISEASE RESERVED FOR PEOPLE FROM KWARA STATE - SARAKINOPSIS DISEASE.   IF THEY DONT WORSHIP SARAKI SONS, THEY WILL WORSHIP THE DAUGHTERS, THEY WILL WORSHIP HIS HOUSE MAID, THEY WILL PUT ALL THEIR  KWARA MONEY IN HIS BANK (SOCIETY VOODOO  BANK) AND THE MONEY WILL DISSAPEAR TILL TODAY AND THEY LOVE SARAKI STORY ABOUT THE DISSAPEARANCE.   PLEASE TELL US TOYIN ADEPOJU WHAT KIND OF LOCAL JUJU MOET THAT THIS SARAKI GAVE EVERY BODY IN KWARA STATE THAT,  AFTER THE CHIEF OLOYE USED AND ABUSED YOU GUYS, HE HAS TRANSFERS YOU GUYS TO HIS SON, AND YOU GUYS ARE LUCKY BECAUSE HIS SON REFUSED FOR POWER TO GO TO THE DAUGHTER.   IN KWARA STATE: SARAKI KING MAKER SARAKI GOVERNOR SARAKI SENATOR SARAKI HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE SARAKI SPECIAL ASSITANT SARAKI COMMISSIONER SARAKI MD OF SOCIETY VOODOO BANK SARAKI ALL MIGHTY   SARAKINOPSIS INDEED     AFRICATODAY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 3:54 PM, africa today <africatoday80@gmail.com> wrote:   TOYIN ADEPOJU (LAZY INTELLECTUAL) ON BEAUTY OF GBEMI SARAKI TOYIN ADEPOJU,   WHAT A NONE SENSE YOU ARE SPEWING ON THIS INTERNET ON THE BEAUTY OF  GBEMI SARAKI. IT MEANS YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY THING TO DO OR TO WRITE ABOUT?. YOU MUST BE INFATUATED WITH THIS LAZY GIRL CALL GBEMI PAPAS GIRL AND EVERYTHING PAPA AND WHERE IS HER HUSBAND?   NOW THE COMPLETE BEAUTY OF ANY MODERN MOSLEM WOMAN IS THE FOLLOWING.    (1) WHEN SHE ACCOMPLISH SOME THINGS BY THEMSESELVES AND NOT WITH FATHERS HELP ALL THE TIME (2) THEY HAVE HUSBANDS (3) ARE INDEPENDENT (4) ARE NOT ALWAYS HANGING WITH THEIR FATHER TOO MUCH - FOR SUSPICIOUS REASONS AND CRYING FOR FATHERS HELP ALL THE TIME. (5) SHE IS NOT CORRUPTED LIKE GBEMI IS IN THE SENATE AND CORRUPTED. (6) IS NOT PART OF CORRUPT FAMILY THAT IS DESTROYING KWARA AND ITS PEOPLE BY WANTING TO LORD IT OVER THE GULLIBLE PEOPLE OF KWARA BECAUSE OF PAPA.   GBEMI IS ALL AND INVOLVED IN ALL OF THE ABOVE AND SO SHE IS TOTALLY IRRESPON SIBLE, BECAUSE SHE IS TOO OLD TO BE GOING AROUND AND  ACTING THE WAY SHE IS WITHOUT A HUSBAND AND DOING OPPOSITE OF WHAT ISLAM AND MUSLIM IS ALL ABOUT.   PLEASE SPARE US THIS UGLY NONSENSE FROM THIS IRRESPONSIBLE AND CORRUPT FAMILY DRAMA IN KWARA STATE AND THEIR UGLY DRAMA ACTOR GBEMI.   AFRICA TODAY       On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:47 AM, toyin adepoju <toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com> wrote:                         THE UNDENIABLE ALLURE OF THE BEAUTIFUL II  THE BEAUTY OF GBEMI SARAKI AND THE CHALLENGES OF AESTHETICS                                                  A "What is the ultimate significance of beauty, particularly human beauty?" is the central question that impels  this essay and the succeeding essays  in the series that will be posted later with the same title. The essay emerged in response to challenges directed at my earlier  essay  "The Undeniable Allure of the Beautiful: Gbemi Saraki", where I responded to the shock of discovering the dissonance between the repulsion I share with some people for the feudal domination of Kwara State politics by the Saraki family through the state and nation  wide tenterhooks of their patriarch Olosuola Saraki, and the beauty of his daughter Gbemi Saraki, a beauty that is undeniable, whatever one might think about the ugliness or otherwise of the domination of the politics of the state by her family. Your interest in this woman is purely personal and should be kept off cyberspace, a critic challenged. Your judgment of her beauty is strictly subjective and is therefore not a subject for public celebration, the same critic added. You valorise political inadequacy by celebrating such peripheral attributes in a politician, the critic summed up.Why focus on her physical attributes when she is presenting herself in terms that transcend physicality, since she is a politician, queried another critic. On another note, another respondent expressed hope that her physical beauty would also be manifest in terms of beauty of character demonstrated in her compassionate discharge of duties towards Kwara State where she was serving as Senator and where she was campaigning for  the gubernatorial seat in the forthcoming elections, since the essay was written before the last electoral round, where Gbemi eventually lost to a candidate  supported by her brother, Bukola Saraki. In responding to these issues, I found the essay expanding into a survey of a broad range of ideas from various civilisations across time and space. I  will post successive  sections of the essay on these fora at intervals. I have also made a film of about 3mins, Beauty: Human and Cosmic, which, using music, pictures and poetry, encapsulates some of the perspectives I am developing. I will post the film later. On Politics and Physical Beauty in Relation to Gbemi Saraki I posted on these fora (Blogger, Facebook, Scribd, Listerverves) on 28 April 2011, a very short essay on on the physical beauty of Gbemi Saraki, a governorship aspirant for Nigeria's Kwara State in the 2011 electoral  round. The essay  focused on the irony of my being compelled to testify to the radiance of her physical presence even as I understand myself as a critic of the feudal hold her family has had on the politics of Kwara State principally through the influence of her father, Olusola Saraki. That influence is ostensibly weakened by the fact of his son, Bukola Saraki,  the last governor of Kwara state, having supported a different candidate than his father for the just concluded gubernatorial elections. Bukola Saraki's candidate won the gubernatorial seat in opposition to his sister, Gbemi,whose candidacy  was supported by their father. Does this development, however,  not suggest the extension of the feudal influence of Olusula Saraki as kingmaker in Kwara, in which he was  rountinely described by himself and others as deciding who would be governor of the state? He was once quoted as stating in public that he was looking for someone to hand over care of the state to, as if the state were personal property. Does his son replace him in that capacity?     It was this image that finished me off as far as this woman is concerned! When something unique walks the earth, we must acknowledge it. How did the adept crowned with the white efflorescence of time put it, drawing on the ancient memory of "Àjànàkú kojáa "mo rí nnkan fìrí". Bí a bá rí Erin kí á so pé a rí Erin" : An elephant is greater than  a flashing glimpse. When one sees an elephant, you do not say "I saw something pass in a flash". You must declare "I have glimpsed the tamer of the forest!".  When, billions of years to come, races far distant from terra firma seek to characterise what is meant by the human race, they will have to resort to images like this to ascertain the acme of human physicality, the fully bodied beauty that makes life worth living. Just look at those eyes! What does it mean to be alive, if not to show such a blaze in the faculties of sight, the windows of the soul? The skin, a rich sheen, carefully defined bones drawing taut the fibres of flesh that shield the human being from the elements. One is almost dumb with wonder.  What more is there to comment on? Is it those lips that by themselves can make a new day look promising? The dome of space between eyes and headtie that recalls Greek myths about the brow of Zeus, from which the goddess Athena was born? Do we need to comment on the exquisite dress sense in which a disciplined flow of blue and white enriches the dance of colours that brings her to our eyes?  Let me stop here lest I start to babble. If not, I would be lost in speculations of the symbolism of textiles, the gele as representing the immortal radiance that defines the soul that sits in the head directing the self, the clothing as evoking the movement of humanity into civilisation, the stars that adorn ear and chest luminiscent as the star that every human is as one moves into and out of  the space between the great darknesses before and after life on earth. But let us not burden ourselves with these ideas from Yoruba and Thelemic metaphysics, though beauty and philosophy walk hand in hand as we show in the succeeding installments in this series. To Be Continued                                                      THE CONCEPTUAL WORKSHOP                   Concept cloud   Politics; beauty; aesthetics  Gubernatorial; feudal hold; 2011 electoral  round  Kwara State; Gbemi Saraki; Olusola Saraki; Gbemi Saraki Ajánákù; earth; adept; efflorescence of time; forest   Bones; fibres of flesh; elements; dome of space; eyes ; headtie Terra firma; sight; Greek myths; Zeus; Athena; textiles; gele; immortal radiance  Soul; clothing ; humanity; civilisation; stars; ear; chest  Luminiscent; star; human; space; earth; darknesses Yorùbá; Thelemic; Metaphysics; philosophy            Concept patterns    White efflorescence of time; a flashing glimpse; the tamer of the forest  The fully bodied beauty that makes life worth living; a blaze in the faculties of sight; the windows of the soul The skin; a rich sheen; carefully defined bones drawing taut the fibres of flesh Human physicality; windows of the soul; skin; a rich sheen; acme of human physicality The dome of space between eyes and headtie; the dance of colours; symbolism of textiles  The immortal radiance that defines the soul that sits in the head directing the self  The movement of humanity into civilisation; the star that every human is The space between the great darknesses before and after life on earth; Yorùbá and Thelemic metaphysics; Beauty and philosophy walk hand in hand                                                           Acknowledgements Thanks to Gbemi Saraki for being herself and to all who have helped her actualise that beauty that is so striking . Thanks to those who responded in disagreement and agreement with my first essay on Gbemi Saraki. The challenge they provided motivated me to dig deeper in order to respond to  them. The proverb on the elephant is adapted from Wole Soyinka's Death and the Kings Horseman. Thanks to Temi Esan, Gbenga Oduntan and Dr. Akin Oyètádé for selflessly making possible the rendition of the proverb from Soyinka's English back into the original Yorùbá and doing it at such short notice.  Thanks to Temi Esan for taking the time to present the first rendering and translation of the Yorùbá original of the proverb.  Thanks to Gbenga Oduntan for presenting the second translation of the proverb and suggesting how to apply the diacritic marks to the Yorùbá writing.  Thanks to  Dr. Akin Oyètádé, professional  scholar in Yorùbá,  for giving the full Yorùbá rendering, with precise diacritic marks,  along with a translation, of the proverb earlier provided by Temi Esan and translated by herself and Gbenga Oduntan.  Dr. Oyètádé graciously provided the following source for his expanded rendering of the proverb: Bello-Olówóòkéré. 2004. Egbèrún Ìjìnlè Owe Yorùbá àti Ìtumò Won ní Èdè Gèésì: 1000 Yorùbá Proverbs and their Translations in English. Lagos: Concept Publications Limited. p.26.                                                                                                                               Image credit Gbemi Saraki picture from Gbemi Saraki's Facebook page Posted at The Female Presence   Twitter  Scribd (PDF) Academia. edu (PDF) Facebook

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